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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38913	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38913

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Caseidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Caseasauria
family	Caseidae	Williston 1911

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Caseidae	family	belongs to Caseasauria	stated without evidence	Williston, 1912
Caseidae	family	belongs to Edaphosauria	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1946
Caseidae	family	belongs to Edaphosauria	stated without evidence	Olson and Beerbower, 1953
Caseidae	family	belongs to Pelycosauria	implied	Olson and Barghusen, 1962
Caseidae	family	belongs to Pelycosauria	stated without evidence	Olson, 1962
Caseidae	family	belongs to Caseosauria	stated without evidence	Olson, 1966
Caseidae	family	belongs to Edaphosauria	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Caseidae	family	belongs to Caseamorpha	stated without evidence	Kemp, 1982
Caseidae	family	belongs to Caseasauria	stated with evidence	Reisz, 1986
Caseidae	family	belongs to Pelycosauria	implied	Carroll, 1988
Caseidae	family	belongs to Caseasauria	implied	Martens et al., 2005
Caseidae	family	belongs to Caseasauria	stated with evidence	Reisz, 2005
Caseidae	family	belongs to Casesauria	stated without evidence	Ivakhnenko, 2008
Caseidae	family	belongs to Caseasauria	stated with evidence	Reisz and Fröbisch, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

304 - 299 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

272 - 254 Ma
Permian

Environment

terrestrial (based on Amniota)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. W. Williston. 1911. Permian Reptiles. Science 33(851):631-632

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Alierasaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Angelosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	279 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Callibrachion ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Casea ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	290 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Caseoides ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Caseopsis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Cotylorhynchus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	17	304 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Datheosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	301 Ma Carboniferous	301 Ma Carboniferous
Ennatosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	273 Ma Permian	273 Ma Permian
Eocasea ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	303 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous
Euromycter ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Oromycter ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Phreatophasma ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	280 Ma Permian	280 Ma Permian
Ruthenosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Trichasaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1911	Caseidae Williston p. 631
1912	Caseidae Williston p. 649
1946	Caseidae Kuhn p. 56
1953	Caseidae Olson and Beerbower p. 399
1962	Caseidae Olson p. 95
1962	Caseidae Olson and Barghusen p. 21
1966	Caseidae Kuhn p. 123
1966	Caseidae Olson p. 302
1982	Caseidae Kemp p. 348

Year	Name and Author
1986	Caseidae Reisz p. 59
1988	Caseidae Carroll
2005	Caseidae Martens et al.
2005	Caseidae Reisz p. 906
2008	Caseidae Ivakhnenko
2008	Caseidae Maddin et al. pp. 161, 172 fig. 9
2014	Caseidae Reisz and Fröbisch p. 2 fig. 4
2014	Caseidae Romano and Nicosia p. 902
2016	Caseidae Spindler et al.

References

Williston S. W. (1911) Permian Reptiles, Science 33 851, 631-632

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

Olson E. C., Beerbower J. R. (1953) The San Angelo Formation, Permian of Texas, and its Vertebrates, Journal of Geology 61 5, 389-423

Olson E. C. (1962) Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 52 2, 1-224

Olson E. C., Barghusen H. (1962) Permian vertebrates from Oklahoma and Texas. Part I.—Vertebrates from the Flowerpot Formation, Permian of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular 59, 5-48

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Olson E. C. (1966) Community evolution and the origin of mammals, Ecology 47 2, 291-302

Kemp T. S. (1982) , Mammal-like Reptiles and the Origin of Mammals, 1-363

Reisz R. R. (1986) Pelycosauria, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A, 1-102

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Martens T., Berman D. S., et al (2005) The Bromacker Quarry - the Most Important Locality of Lower Permian Terrestrial Vertebrate Fossils Outside of North America, The Nonmarine Permian. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 30, 214-215

Reisz R. R. (2005) Oromycter, a New Caseid from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 4, 905-910

Ivakhnenko M. F. (2008) Podklass Ophiacomorpha, Iskopaemye pozvonotchnye Rossii i sopredel'nykh stran: Iskopaemye reptilii i ptitsy, Tchast' 1 [Fossil vertebrates of Russia and adjacent countries: Fossil reptiles and birds, Part 1], GEOS, Moscow, 95-100

Maddin H. C., Sidor C. A., et al (2008) Cranial Anatomy of Ennatosaurus tecton (Synapsida: Caseidae) from the Middle Permian of Russia and the Evolutionary Relationships of Caseidae, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 1, 160-180

Reisz R. R., Fröbisch J. (2014) The oldest caseid synapsid from the Late Pennsylvanian of Kansas, and the evolution of herbivory in terrestrial vertebrates, PLoS One 9 4, e94518 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094518

Romano M., Nicosia U. (2014) Alierasaurus ronchii, gen. et sp. nov., a caseid from the Permian of Sardinia, Italy, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 4, 900-913 doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.837056

Spindler F., Falconnet J., et al (2016) Callibrachion and Datheosaurus, two historical and previously mistaken basal caseasaurian synapsids from Europe, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 3, 597-616

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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